This is a really good tool, especially for the true begginers like me:

http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/latin/

and here is another great tool:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?lang=la

“And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies?”

St. Augustine, City of God

It is quite likely that most of the first fifteen presidents of the United States would not have been recognized had they passed the average citizen in the street… to think about those men was to think about what they had written, to judge them by their public positions, their arguments, their knowledge as codified in the printed word.”

-Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death

“An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ‘Gentlemen’ to the person with whom he is conversing.”

-Alexis de Tocqueville

“The invention of firearms equalized the vassal and the noble on the field of battle; the art of printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; the post brought knowledge alike to the door of the cottage and to the gate of the palace.”

-Alexis de Tocqueville

“The poorest labourer upon the shore of the Delaware thinks himself entitled to deliver his sentiment in matters of religion or politics with as much freedom as the gentleman or scholar… Such is the preavailing taste for books of every kind, that almost every man is a reader.”

-1772, Jacob Duche
quoted by Neil Postman in his book, Amusing ourselves to Death

Fellow Freshmen, I thought this blog may be a useful and fun means of communication on which we can give updates, post announcements, discuss homework or assigments, post pictures of school events, etc. Anyone can easily comment, and if you didn’t get an invitation to be a blog member (to be able to post), email me at daniel@foucachon.com .

if you want your url added, or have a suggestion for the layout etc., make sure and tell me.

Have a good weekend!

-Daniel Foucachon

Hello Fellow Freshman, this is the first post just to try things out.

“We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?–Is he in hell?
That demmed elusive Pimpernel.

Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-Shakespeare

“The carnal mind sees God in nothing, not even in spiritual things, THe spiritual mind sees Him in everything, even in natural things….”
-Robert Leighton

“As the apple is not the cause of the apple tree, but a fruit of it: even so good works are not the cause of our savlation, but a sign and fruit of the same.”
-Daniel Cawdray

“Take God into thy counsel. Heaven overlooks hell. God at any time can tell thee what plots are hatching there against thee.”
-William Gurnall

“If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.”
-Thomas Brooks

Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
-John Bunyan

“The conclusion of the Spanish-American War left the United States with an overseas empire. The nations of Europe watched to see if the United States would exploit her newly acquired possessions for her own economic benefit, without regard for the good of the peoples in the possessed lands. Instead, the American Republic began a program of building, developing, and benefiting her her newly aquired regions of the world. America bestowed upon her possessions new health and sanitation programs, new standards of education, new financial opportunities, and a generally higher level of civilization. In a series of steps, each new possession came to enjoy new levels of self-government. Most important of all, wherever the American flag went, it was followed by Christian missionaries who took the gospel to the native people. “

-United States History: Heritage of Freedom p.436

A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher;
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbands to flow confusedly;
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoestring, in whose tie
I see a wild civility;–
Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.

-Robert Herrick

Remember, sinner, it is not your hold of Christ that saves you–it is Christ; it is not your joy in Christ that saves you–it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that is the instrument–it is Christ’s blood and merits; therefore, look not to your hope, but to Christ the source of hope; look not to your faith, but to Christ, the author and finisher of your faith; and if you do that, ten thousand devils cannot throw you down. There is one thing which we all too much confuse in our preaching, namely the great truthy that it is not prayer, it is not faith, it is not our doings, it is not our feelingsupon which we must trust–butupon Christ, and on Christ alone. We are apt to think that we are not in a right state, that we do not feel enough, instead of remembering that our business is not with self, but with Christ. Let me beseech you, look only to Christ; never expect deliverance from yourself, from ministers, or from any means of any kind apart from Christ; keep your eye simply on Him; let His death, His agonies, His groans, His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon your mind; when you wake in the morning look to Him; when you lie down at night look for Him.

-Charles Spurgeon
from one of his early sermons

Murderer: Where is your husband?
Lady Macduff: I hope, in no place so unsanctified
Where such as thou mayst find him.
Murderer: He’s a traitor
Son: Thou liest, thou shag-ear’d villain.
Murderer: What, you egg?

A man rarely stands taller than when he stands for a lady.

– Doug Wilson

As we speak, by order of the court, Terry Schiavo is being starved to death in Florida. But there are other victims, among them the godly use of words. When men want to obscure their lusts, or hide their greed, they always create a fog of words. Obscure, deny, lie, evade, change, slice, spin, and counterattack.

All this to say something that should be obvious — food is not medical treatment. We are not talking about a genuinely difficult ethical dilemma created by some marvel of medical technology. There are times when some artificial means of keeping a body alive are a form of doctors trying to play God. But giving someone food does not fall into that category. The standard here is not life, or death. The standard is always found in answer to the question, “Who do we think we are? God? Or men answerable to God?”

The court is not “letting Terry die,” and this is what I meant when I said these scoundrels are doing more than just killing her. They are murdering words so that they may do as they please with men and women. Withholding food is not “letting someone die.” Smothering Terry with a pillow would not be “letting her body take its natural course when oxygen is not present.” And inability to follow an argument of this nature is a profound moral failing.

-Douglas Wilson (3/22/05)